Kulasekhara was a pious king of the Kerala or Chera dynasty of South India. He was a king at Calicut and was the son of King Dritavratha. He was born at Tiruvanjikkulam in the 28^th year of the Kali Era, in Prabhava, Masi, Sukla Paksha, Dvadasi, Thursday, when the star Punarvasu was in ascendancy.

Kulasekhara was an ardent devotee of Sri Rama. He found happiness in worshipping Lord Rama and in the service of His devotees. He was learned, wise and devoted, He had knowledge of Sanskrit and Tamil. He was proficient in the Vedas. He was chivalrous. He attained victories over the then princes of South India. He had titles such as Koodanayaka and Kongarkone. He ruled his dominion justly and wisely.

As Kulasekhara was an ardent devotee of Lord Rama, called in Tamil ‘Perumal’ and as he identified himself with the Lord, he was called Kulasekhara Perumal and his Tamil them was called ‘Perumal Thirumozhi’, a collection of 105 verses. It is included in the first part of the Divya Prabhandam. Half of the collection glorifies the temples that he had visited. The twenty verses on Lord Krishna are pregnant with Madhurya Bhav. The ten verses that pertain to Chitrakut give a description of the chief incidents in the life of Lord Rama. It is the strong belief of the Vaishnavas that a repetition of these ten verses would bestow on one as much merit as a reading of the whole Ramayana.

Kulasekhara stayed at Srirangam for several years. He sang Mukunda Mala in Sanskrit. It consists of forty stanzas. This is a very reputed work of Kulasekhara.

Kulasekhara has sung many hymns on the Lilas of Sri Krishna and Sri Rama, on the love of the Gopis and the glory of Krishna, and on the glory of Rama and His chivalrous deeds.